Five Questions for Dr. Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Tele...
The mobile phone revolution in developing countries was possible in large part because of standards in Internet and communications...
Engineering for Change
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The Worldwide Elusive Search for Affordable Housing
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version (NIV). In...
Tackling Indoor Air Pollution in Northern Cambodia with Impr...
Traditional cooking practices in the developing world contribute to poor health, environmental degradation, and poverty. Today, about three billion people around the world cook using simple stoves (often three...
The Babajob story: How Blue-Collar India Finds Work
In 2004, Anirudh Krishna published a study that changed the life of an American and set off a chain of events that founded a multi-million-dollar business in India. Dr....
Easing Land Conflict in DRC: An Introduction to Open-Source ...
Beni, a vibrant city in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is home to approximately half a million people , but it has the feeling of a big village. The buildings...
Manual wheelchair design and production in low-resource sett...
Complex challenges await designers developing wheelchairs for low-resource settings, but the result could be life-changing for the people who use the chairs. To help designers create sustainable chairs that...
Evaluating Development Technology: Quantitative and Qualitat...
Every year, thousands of products are distributed to communities in low-resource settings. Unfortunately, many of these products are underused or nonfunctional, with little follow-up to determine why. As development...
The new face of women in water
Women are often underrepresented in the engineering field, and water is no exception. Women play critical roles in all...
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Why companies should not sell or give technology intended for individual and household use to NGOs
When I worked at CARE, I used to get these calls about once a month. “Hi, I’m Bob! I...
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Gallery: Ishow in Photos
If you’ve ever been to an iShow you’ll know that they are long, information-dense single-day events in three urban...
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Fighting Latin American corruption with civic tech: Five questions for Anca Matioc
Growing up in Romania, political corruption was a family dinner conversation, and Anca Matioc has translated that ingrained interest...
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Learning to Teach ICT4D: 10 Principles Gleaned from Two Decades in the Classroom and the Field
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about teaching ICT4D, it’s that every project needs to be a hybrid between...
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Explore ICTs in Global Development at ITU Telecom World 2017
Artificial intelligence can crunch the numbers on inconceivably large volumes of data, predicting trends, mitigating problems, driving a revolution...
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Roads Paved with Plastic Bottles: Making Use of an Ecological Threat
Rotterdam in the Netherlands may become the first city to repurpose one of Earth’s biggest pollutants by paving its...
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Changing the behavior of the development sector
When the development community speaks of behavior change, it usually refers to individuals doing something differently. Whether that is...
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Algorithmic analysis of satellite data and a new offline tool monitor deforestation worldwide
Despite its protected status, deforestation threatens the Leuser Ecosystem, 2.6 million hectares (6.5 million acres) of rainforest on the...
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Fixing the world’s rural roads with a shovel and a phone app
For those of us who don’t know what it’s like to live at the end of a poorly maintained...
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